soulpope
redbeansandrice …. ich glaub die konnten alle die Texte .… und bei der Sonny Rollins audition in dem Charles Farrell Buch war es auch so, dass Farrell einen Standard nicht kannte (Three Little Words? Wrap your troubles in dreams? weiss gerade nicht mehr) und Rollins dann zum einstudieren das Lied vorsingt, natuerlich mit Text und allem, und der Pianist sich daraus die Akkorde herleiten soll…
Wusste ich nicht …. thnx ….
hier ist die Passage aus Farrells Buch (Low)Life mit ein paar Kuerzungen, es ging um „I had the craziest dream“, das ist das Mittelstueck des Kapitels ueber seine Sonny Rollins Audition (davor kommt wie Madame Chaloff das vermittelt hat, danach die Sache mit dem lausigen Gehalt)
Charles Farrell I was certain he liked my playing even though he may not have liked me. The group played for an hour or so and then Sonny called „I had the craziest dream.“ I had never heard of it.
„I’ll teach it to you,“ Sonny said.
He pulled a folding chair up to the piano stool, sat, and turned to face me.
Then Sonny Rollins started to sing.
„I had the craziest dream,“ he began, „yes I did.“ He had a slight speech impediment; it came out „I had the cwaziest dweam.“
[..]
Sonny gazed at me directly the whole time he sang, giving the lyrics a thorough reading, paying attention to the precise melody as written, adding no embellishments, no jazz inflection. He was teaching me the tune, trusting that I would somehow figure out the chords from the melody alone.
„I never dreamed it could be.
Yet there you were, in love with me.“
He sang with no sense of embarrassment. He sang the tune at the slow tempo he intended the band to play it.
„I found your lips next to mine so I kissed them
And you didn’t mind it at all.“
I thought, „This is going to make a great story someday.“
„When I’m awake such a break never happens
How long can a guy go on dreaming?“
„Okay,“ I told myself, „it goes to the F sharp minor 7 flat 5 at the start of the turnaround.“
[..]
I didn’t take the gig. This shows how little understanding I had of the music business. It never crossed my mind that it might be a good career move to play with Sonny Rollins for a year or so, then see what my options were.
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